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A California Chamber of Commerce political action committee bankrolled in part by insurance companies is helping fund TV ads for Republican nsurance commissioner candidate Mike Villines, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The payment arrangements of group purchasing organizations wastes billions of dollars each year, according to a new study funded by the Medical Device Manufacturers Association, a trade group that represents device makers.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. David Paterson push to keep New Yorkers on food stamps from buying sugary drinks.
News outlets report on workforce issues affecting doctors and nurses.
"As the economic downturn depresses global investment in AIDS prevention, scientists and those who fund them are struggling to set priorities among several competing research methods that could slow the spread of the disease, which causes about 2.7 million new infections worldwide a year," CQ HealthBeat reports.
Today's early morning highlights include stories on waivers given some companies that offer only minimal health insurance coverage, insurers' political efforts during this campaign season and efforts in New York to bar the use of food stamps to buy soda.
Bloomberg reports that 30 companies have secured a waiver from the federal government to avoid a new, health law consumer protection that would prohibit capping insurance costs.
Politico reports that anti-abortion Democrats are facing stiff opposition in their bids for re-election. Organizations like the Susan B. Anthony List and other anti-abortion groups are now attacking former allies who once sided with them on abortion.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Wednesday's health care opinions and editorials from around the country.
In races around the U.S., the health care law is proving to be a main factor in deciding who gets elected, with Republicans promising repeal and Democrats defending the tenets of the law.
States address a range of health policy issues.
Donors at a replenishment meeting in New York on Tuesday pledged $11.7 billion over three years for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, "higher than past support but below the lowest target set by the agency in its efforts to combat disease in the developing world," the Financial Times reports (Jack, 10/5).
The Hill's Healthwatch blog reports that players are weighing in on a proposal to expedite the approval process for some medical devices.
Medicare reimbursement rates should be based on how effective the treatment is for a particular illness, according to a piece by two policy experts in the October edition of Health Affairs.
The U.S. "ranks among the lowest in terms of the quality and effectiveness of its aid," according to a new Center for Global Development (CGD)/Brookings Institution report, Foreign Policy's "The Cable" blog writes. The report examined "30 separate, measurable indicators and evaluated them in terms of four dimensions: maximizing efficiency (how smartly the money is distributed), fostering institutions (whether the money is helping host governments), reducing the burden on recipient countries (how much the host countries need to do to get the money), and transparency and learning (how much we know about how the aid is being spent)."
According to an index on African governance released by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, "[m]ost countries are improving their economies and their human development, yet nearly two-thirds are suffering a 'democratic recession'
Nurses could take a bigger role and more responsibility in medical care - a move that could lower costs and stave off a physician shortage - without putting patients at risk.
State and local officials facing down looming budget shortfalls are beginning to look at cutting public employees' famously generous retirement benefits.
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